But this time around, the landlord — Roger Forbes — has some things to say, like his side of the story. First of all, Forbes stresses that a strip club is certainly not going to replace the bar. He wants to keep it Tosca Cafe, whether under the same or new owners.

He says that the crazy thing is that current owner Jeannette Etheredge, who has owned it since 1980, just stopped paying the full amount of rent a decade ago, when the economy crashed, post-9/11. Nevius reports that she just decided — without any input from the landlord — to drop her own rent from $7,500 to $6,500. That’s how she is $100,000 in arrears.

But the most notable thing in today’s follow-up might be the that Forbes is both opening negotiations with Etheredge and more importantly, entertaining offers from potential new operators about keeping the bar as Tosca — and improving it. Here’s what Forbes had to say:

“The last thing in the world that would go in that location is a strip club … There’s already too many strip clubs. … What I would like to do is sell it to somebody who would run it like a business and not a place for Jeanette Etheredge to sit at the bar and hold court with her famous friends.”